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  Is your reading just an “escape”?? Your favorite “escape” read might be a gated community for your conscience. Today, we interrogate the “Catharsis Commodity” and ask if our reading habits are just another layer of the Hideous Bargain. Explore the ethics of reading and the “Empathy Trap” in this look at the arguments of […]

  Can Stoicism answer our dilemma? Is the suffering child a product of a world that demands every second and every soul be “useful”  to the state? By comparing the “Roman Plow” of duty to the “Sovereign Tree” of uselessness, we ask if our participation in the “Achievement Society” is actually what pays for global injustice […]

4 December 2021   Episode 4+ Bonus – Van Gogh – Immersive Exhibits   Does Immersive Van Gogh enlighten and educate through a new genre of art, or is it a dangerous profit-mongering exploitation which keeps us in ignorance? How should one understand or read a painting, anyway? Is this the path for the future and for education?   —   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/van-gogh/    ===   CHAPTERS 00:00:00     Intro 00:01:04     Costs, Critics, and Questions 00:06:54     Intentional Objections and Art Displacement 00:12:17     Meaning in the Absence of Paint 00:14:11     *Art Under Capitalism 00:15:59     Immersion and Mental Illness 00:20:31     Ekphrasis: The Response to Art 00:26:52     Reading: Anne Sexton’s “The Starry Night” 00:28:56     Traditional Criticisms in Paint; Meaning in the Non-Verbal 00:38:23     The Olive Trees 00:49:13     The Nature of Ekphrastic Dialogue and Fear 00:54:36     *Van Gogh Transformations 00:57:07     New Genres and Installations 01:02:41     *Kurosawa, Chopin, and Emily 01:06:22     *Some ToK Considerations 01:07:46     Pedagogy and the Sesame Street Effect 01:11:52     *Reading: “Van Gogh in the Olive Garden” by Whiteman 01:14:51     Choosing Response 01:18:06     Outro *Chapters which are part of Bonus episode only. ===   The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs.    Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.    Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912    CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.    MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Van Gogh: Immersive Exhibits.” Waywords Studio, 4 Dec. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/van-gogh/   

19 November 2021 Episode 3+ BONUS – Adichie’s “Tomorrow Is Too Far”   How does one read a story which creates its own rules? What else should we ever do? A sociological look at Adichie’s intersectionality, including a discussion of difference, second person narrative, linguistic compounding and kennings, feminism, and sociological theory for African writers and readers of African literature. Finally, we connect Adichie’s short story to works discussed earlier in the season. One passage considered: — At Nonso’s funeral in a cold cemetery in Virginia with tombstones jutting out obscenely, your mother was in faded black from head to toe, even a veil, and it made her cinnamon skin glow, like placing a very ripe corn against a blackboard. Your father stood away from the both of you, in his usual dashiki, milk-coloured cowries coiled round his neck. He looked as if he was not family, as if he was one of the guests who sniffled loudly and later asked your mother in hushed tones exactly how Nonso had died, exactly how he had fallen from one of the trees he had climbed since he was a toddler. —   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/adichie-tomorrow-is-too-far/    ===   CHAPTERS 00:00:00     Intro 00:01:05     Adichie & Difference 00:05:26     No Clean Lines; Filling the Gaps 00:08:03     Snakes & Epistemic Shifts 00:12:33     **Linguistics: Compounding & Kennings 00:25:14     Deconstructing “You” 00:30:37     Bigger Than the Story 00:31:24     Feminism’s Epistemologies 00:44:57     Bakhtin: Intersections and Bad Binaries 00:47:36     A Closer Reading: Layers in the Details 00:51:51     Sociological Theory: Ill-Fitting Frames 01:04:35     Reflection: Juxtaposing Authors 01:07:28     Closing: One More Moment 01:09:13     Outro **Added segment for the Bonus episode    ===   The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs.    Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.    Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912    CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.    MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Adichie: ‘Tomorrow is Too Far.’” Waywords Studio, 19 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/adichie-tomorrow-is-too-far/.   

11 November 2021 Episode 2.1 A Memoir of Sorts   A reading of “L’Art” by Theophile Gautier; translation by George Santayana.   === https://waywordsstudio.com Show Home Page: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/legacy-podcast/  Legacy is a production of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast publishes two micro-episodes per week until the season story completes. This same feed will also host the short audio fiction program “Scenes and Moments” in alternative seasons. Visit us for additional materials and clues for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading.  Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912    USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.  MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Legacy, A Reading of Theophile Gautier’s ‘Art’.” Waywords Studio, 11 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/legacy-podcast/     

5 November 2021 Episode 2+ BONUS – Fowles in the Frith    How do we determine the meaning of a work which has no author? And what responsibility is there in authoring our own interpretation?   We examine the potential meanings of this poem, dig at length into the different ideas of medieval authorship, and find we may have not have wandered yet that far, at all.   Foweles in the frith, The fisses in the flod, And I mon waxe wod. Sulch sorw I walke with For beste of bon and blod.   https://waywordsstudio.com   Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/anonymous-fowls-in-the-frith/   ===   CHAPTERS   00:00:00 Ch1 – Intro 00:03:00 Ch2 – The Challenge of the Text 00:05:10 Ch3 – A Close Reading 00:10:19 Ch4 – Some Ways to Meaning 00:18:31 Ch5 – Essence of the Short Poem – Emily Dickinson 00:21:51 Ch6 – Medieval Songs and Philosophy 00:30:42 Ch7 – A History of Authorship 00:40:23 Ch8 – 99% Perspiration 00:43:09 **Ch9 – Related Works 00:44:55 **Ch10 – Who’s Your Daddy? 00:46:37 **Ch11 – Authorship and Ego 00:49:07 **Ch12 – Poetry Challenges the Sacred 00:52:57 Ch13 – Romantic Ego, Disintegration, and the Book 01:00:28 **Ch14 – Authors Absent and Present 01:02:31 Ch15 – BeFowling the Canon 01:06:25 Ch16 – Reason in the Frith 01:10:52 Ch 17 – Outro **Added segment for the Bonus episode    ===   The Waywords Podcast is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with deep-dive examinations of literature around some common questions or themes and 1-3 smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs.    Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses.    Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com  Twitter: @WaywordsStudio Instagram: @WaywordsStudio   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Waywords-Studio-107310977755912    CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski   USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution.    MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Anonymous: Fowles in the Frith.’” Waywords Studio, 5 Nov. 2021, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/anonymous-fowls-in-the-frith/.